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Game Apparatus.

No. 232,394. 1 Patented sept. 2|, 1880.

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SURYILLE J. DELAN, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,394, dated September 21, 18810.

'Application led March 29, 1880.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, SURVILLE J. DELAN, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Game Apparatus for Solving a Toy Puzzle, ot' which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of game apparatus for solving toy puzzles wherein it is required that men or pieces betransierred from one position to another in a certain delinite order or arrangement and it consists of a board -or-other suitable object divided into two parts or sides by an obstruction, with a device for conveying the pieces from olne side to the other, in combination with two distinct sets of pegs or movable objects.

, In the accompanying' drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view of my improved game apparatus for solving a toy puzzle; and Fig. 2 is a cross-section ot Fig. l, taken on line x.

Referring to the drawings, A B represent the two win gs or parts ofthe board, and C the intervenin g obstruction or channel. The two sides 01 partsA B are each provided with peg-holders a for the pegs or pieces D E, which are of two kinds or characters in equal numbers. The pieces D represent, say, travelers, and vE servants attending them, the parts A B land, and the vchannel C a river. rlhc conveyance F, which may or may not be used, may represent a boat or any other suitable object, and may be placed on a wire, b, crossing the obstruction G. The boat can be moved on the wire b from side to side, and the said conveyance should be adapted to carry only two pieces or pegs.

One mode ot' playing the game or puzzle consists in transferring the travelers and servants by twos from one side to the other ot' the obstruction without leaving the travelers in a minority on either side, so as not to subject them to danger at the hands of the ser- Vants.

By using eight pieces, four ot each kind, at least three combinations are formed, which I (No model.)

call terms, the solution of two of which I will describe. Y

First term: Suppose three travelers and three servants reach one side ot' a river or obstruction, O, and wish to cross under the laboveinentioned condition. They will proceed as follows: tirst, two servants cross and one returns; second, two servants cross and again one returns; third, two travelers cross, one returns with one ot' the servants; fourth, two travelers cross and one servant returns; fifth, two servants cross and one returns; sixth, two servants cross together. In this way all have crossed over and the first term ot the puzzle is solved.

Second term: A traveler and servant now appear on the opposite side of the obstruction, and the object is to transfer the last comers to the same side with those who crossed over in the first term and under the same conditions. To this end, first, one traveler and one servant ot' the six return to the opposite side, where the new traveler and servant are waiting 5 second, the two travelers cross over; third, one servant returns; fourth, two servan ts cross over. This completes the solution ot' the second term.

Another term would be t0 let the four travelers and their servants recross the river under the foregoing conditions; but other and further interesting combinations may be produced with this gaine.

I claiml. A game apparatus consisting of a board having' channel C and an equal set of pegholders on each side of said channel, in com' bination with conveyance F and with two sets, D and E, of movable pegs, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination of the gameboard A, having peg-holders a and channels U, with the wire b and conveyance F, substantially as herein shown and described.

Witnesses: SURVILLE J. DELAN.

WILLY G. E. SoHULTz, HARRY M. TURK. 

